Greenville - Local court, school, law enforcement, juvenile justice, and county officials in Pitt County will launch the School Justice Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in a signing ceremony on November 13, 2019. The parties to the MOU are opening a forum to discuss and consider best practices that may help reduce school-based referrals of youth to the court for minor misconduct that does not pose a threat to the safety and welfare of others.

WHO

• Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, Supreme Court of North Carolina 
• Executive Branch Officials
• Local school leadership 
• Local law enforcement and school resource officers 
• North Carolina Judicial Branch officials
• Pitt County judicial officials
• Pitt County government officials
   

WHEN
Wednesday, November 13, 2019, at 10:00 a.m.
Press is invited to attend and should arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time.

WHERE
Pitt County Courthouse, Superior Courtroom 1
100 W 3rd Street, Greenville, NC 27834

MORE INFORMATION

The School Justice Partnership is a group of community stakeholders who work together to establish specific guidelines for school discipline in a way that minimizes suspensions, expulsions, and school-based referrals to court for minor misconduct. The main goal of the SJP is to keep kids in school and out of court for routine misconduct at school. SJPs are being developed throughout North Carolina as a result of the state’s recently enacted Raise the Age law.